{"id":82,"date":"2024-05-31T10:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2024-05-31T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:51:07","slug":"white-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"White Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3190-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3190-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3190-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3190-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3190.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A train runs through it. Three, maybe four diesel locos pulling what seemed like a mile of hopper cars (smelled like coal) trailed by two more engines pushing. Something ironic about five diesel locomotives moving a hundred hoppers full of coal. Commuter trains also use this track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3200.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You may ask yourself, why is the city named \u201cWhite Rock\u201d? And you may ask yourself, maybe it\u2019s the majestic snow covered mountain peaks? And you may ask yourself, maybe there\u2019s zinc mines? From the fount of all crowd-sourced knowledge, Wikipedia: \u201cThe 486-ton granite boulder (above) was kept white by shellfish-eating seabirds whose&nbsp;guano covered the rock so much that 19th-century sailors used it as a beacon. It is now kept white through monthly applications of white paint by the city parks department.\u201d Ah, namesakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1-905x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1-905x1024.jpg 905w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1-768x869.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1-1358x1536.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3210-1.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White Rock, incorporated in 1957, is also the home of Canada\u2019s longest pier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1100\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_3211-1536x845.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A train runs through it. Three, maybe four diesel locos pulling what seemed like a mile of hopper cars (smelled like coal) trailed by two more engines pushing. Something ironic about five diesel locomotives moving a hundred hoppers full of coal. Commuter trains also use this track. You may ask yourself, why is the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-alaska-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}